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The Marshmallow Principle. The most important principle to follow around the expensive holidays ...
MIAMI, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- International author, Joachim de Posada, has just released his new book, Don't Gobble the Marshmallow...Ever!. This is a follow up to his book, Don't Eat the Marshmallow...Yet (Penguin, 2006), a New York Times 'Business Book of the Month' with more than two million copies in 20 different languages sold all over the world.
In a landmark study by Stanford University, preschoolers were each given a marshmallow to hold with a small caveat: Eat it now, or wait 15 minutes and receive another, doubling the treat. Researchers followed the children for years and found -- incredibly -- that over time, those who waited became much more successful than those who did not.
The power of delayed gratification, which is the basis for The Marshmallow Principle, is the most underestimated and important principle to success in today's fast-paced, connected and consumer centric society.
Praise for Don't Gobble the Marshmallow...Ever!
"...more than just fluff. It's a recipe for long-term success." -- Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive
"Joachim's brilliant message is our world's best antidote for the 'Instant Gratification' maladies that are undermining our success and happiness as a society." -- Robert Chesney, executive producer of Window on Wall Street
About the Author:
Joachim de Posada is a bilingual international motivational speaker, radio and TV personality, author and newspaper columnist who has spoken in more than 30 countries. He is the author of the bestselling Don't Eat the Marshmallow...Yet! and How to Survive Among Piranhas: Motivation to Succeed.
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Web site: http://www.marshmallowprinciple.com/
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Hold onto your bootstraps folks! If you liked Erin Brockovich, you’ll be thoroughly intrigued with the adventures of these two sisters, their knack for investigative work, their family and influential friends in Texas. This is a stirring, humorous and unconventional “true story” about their epics and the Texas Justice System.
Sydney and her sister Heather will take you through their gut wrenching, nerve racking, emotional coaster ride that occurs after their father dies and their stepmother produces a Last Will and Testament that leaves the stepmother everything.
As the two sisters face their father’s death, an evil stepmother, and a tainted legal system, they introduce themselves to many people along the way while searching for missing pieces of the family puzzle. What they discover makes them question everything they once thought was real.
Is their father the man they think he is? How was he able to buy all the land and mineral rights that he owned? Were his connections to George Bush, Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird and Joe Bonanno much deeper than they seemed? Was he truly involved in the JFK assassination?
Once considered a normal, upstanding, law abiding, financially distressed family, they learn their family’s friends make them anything but normal. Was it normal for Heather to go swimming in Lady Bird Johnson’s pool? Was it normal for Joe Bonanno to show up at their home? Just how involved was their father in the gambling and prostitution rings along the Galveston Bay?
What they learn about their stepmother Betty is even more devastating. How did the town whore come to marry their father the Police Chief? Did she kill her only brother and forge her own father’s Will too? Just how many accomplices does she have? Are some of them their own brothers and sisters? What the two sisters’ forensic document expert, Mrs. Higgins, discovers will send chills up and down your spine. No Greater Deception is the first of a three book series that will be published by 1st Books as an eBook and paperback in December 2003.
From as early as the founding of America, Sydney Newman Dotson's family has been blessed with a long line of judges, law enforcement officers and military officers including 2nd Lt. John Campbell who fought with George Washington at Valley Forge, and General George Armstrong Custer who died at the Little Big Horn. During the days of Annie Oakley in the 1800’s, Sydney’s great-great-great grandmother served as her husband’s deputy and wore guns. Sydney’s father was a fifth generation law enforcement officer in Texas. This strong ethical family upbringing inspired Sydney to write this book.
After earning a cum laude Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at Dallas, Sydney planned to follow in her father’s law enforcement footsteps, or boots. When her father learned this was her goal, he advised her to pursue a more lucrative and less dangerous investigative career outside of law enforcement. She followed his excellent advice and found it to be everything he said it would be, and more.
Sydney Newman Dotson has over 20 years of corporate strategy, sales and marketing experience with such companies as Compaq, EDS and IBM. As IBM’s Director of Corporate Business Intelligence, Sydney created IBM’s Global Business Intelligence Network, Global Market View, Alert Newsletter, and the Field Intelligence Posse. Sydney and her family live in Dallas, Texas where she’s an author and business consultant.
New Novel Follows Two Love-Fearful People as They Track Down Killers Stalking One of Them
 Swanzetta Smith - Author |
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Riverside, CA - (8-21-03). Denise Richardson has two reasons to be afraid. Someone wants her dead and someone else wants her heart. She doesn't have time to figure out which is more dangerous in the exciting new suspenseful romance novel, Private Passions (now available through 1stBooks), by Swanzetta Smith.
All that Denise needed was time to heal from the breakup of her four-year relationship and the loss of her best friend. While getting ready for work, she is surprised by two unknown intruders in her apartment. She escapes barely, but not before she witnesses the murder of her neighbor. The danger grows deeper when she meets Terrence O'Neal, the handsome homicide detective assigned to the case.
After talking with her, he is skeptical of her innocence. Lately, however, he has had trouble trusting any woman. Since his engagement ended in disaster, he has locked up his heart and misplaced the key. As the killers begin to threaten her life, she seeks his protection. It isn't part of his assignment, but as his heart slowly becomes involved, he won't stop until the killers are caught. As they negotiate the clues of the case and close in on the killers, their hearts both begin to open.
A fast-paced, suspenseful romance, Private Passions is a story of two sensitive people treading dangerous ground. Smith was born in Los Angeles and currently resides in Riverside, Calif., where she works in law enforcement. A member of both the Black Writer's Alliance and Romance Writer's of America, she occasionally volunteers with a local non-profit performing arts ministry that raises scholarships for students majoring in the arts. Smith began her artistic career in singing and dancing. She has been writing since 1996. Private Passions is her first novel.
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6-22-03. Harry Potter fans are ecstatic. The wait is over for the latest installment of J.K. Rowling's book phenomenon. Fifth in a series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," had many U.S. kids staying up way past their bedtimes Saturday midnight waiting in line with parents for the debut. Potter fans globally waited for hours for the 800-plus tome, including fans in London, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand.
5-6-03. According to The Sun newspaper, advance copies of the highly-anticipated fifth installment of the best-selling boy wizard Harry Potter book series have been found in an English field by a 40-year-old father of two. Two first editions of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which is set to be released June 21, were reportedly stolen from a nearby print shop, Printer Clays Ltd. The first four installments of the Harry Potter book series have sold almost 200 million copies. Two Warner Brothers blockbuster movies have also been made from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” with the first one earning the honor of being the second-highest grossing movie of all time after “Titanic.”
The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, wrote her first installment as a single mother with little money. She is now worth more than Queen Elizabeth with a fortune of $450 million. The combined first printing in North American and the United Kingdom still hold a publishing record with an excess of 4.5 million copies.
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